Recommended Strategies in the
Workshop of Advocacy for an
Asian Human Rights Court
(Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan | 11 May 2019)
● Further research on sub-regional platforms (ex. People’s SAARC) and gather together for domestic
(and)or sub-regional tribunals
● Further support to South Asian CSO network
● Identification and engagement with “like-minded” states with interest in initiatives for region-wide human rights mechanisms
● Setting up a clear distinction between PTs (People’s Tribunal) and regional human rights courts
(and other forms or initiatives)
● Is Malaysia a possible focal point? Is this the optimal time or regime?
● Source of momentum for the governments? And for NGOs? With whom do (can) we collaborate?
● Research and reflection on what has worked vs. what has not (or did not) with regard to different
existing platforms
● Integration with new technology
● Information sharing from the 2017 Asian Human Rights Court as a follow-up
● Leveraging human rights education (framing the court as an important public space for
learning, sharing and community-building)
○ Ensuring the consistency of human rights education international human rights standards
and norms
● Developing a work plan with proposed milestones and actors
● Modeling after an advisory (with a possibility to evolve later into a trial court or a domestic or
constitutional court)
● Setting up an ecosystem approach to enhance coordination and efforts (i.e. human rights
education → international human rights standards)
● Exploiting the positive developments (i.e. Malaysia) as much as possible
● Using existing human rights educational tools (i.e. SHAPE-SEA online course modules) and adapt or
extend them accordingly
● Creating a plan for the communication and promotion
● Developing literature on sub-regional platforms and if/where there are already interactions
between the initiatives (may become a possible research project)
● Forming a network of groups with experience on the formation of peoples’ tribunals in the region
on the purpose of information-sharing
● Human rights education should be focusing on empowering people to make use of tribunals or
courts
● Developing a strategic paper with conceptual approaches
● Mapping out activities [for the work on advocacy?]
Workshop on Strategy of Human Rights in APEC July 11-14